In October, guest blogger Terra Brockman wrote about how local seed libraries could be one easy way to help knit communities together around healthy eating. Shortly thereafter, MPR reported the Minnesota Dept. of Ag had deemed…

The USDA’s expert advisors have been working on recommendations for the 2015 version of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. For the first time, they have been thinking about sustainability, and why it may be key to…

Essentially, no novel antibiotics have been created for more than three decades. In the January edition of Nature, researchers announced an entirely novel class of drugs they derived from tapping into the uncultured organisms within dirt….

On November 3, the Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (GRSB) overwhelmingly approved the Principles and Criteria for Defining Global Sustainable Beef. The publication was nothing short of greenwashing by industry giants who lead the GRSB. Healthy Food…

The nation’s first textbook on food systems and health came out this month, edited by Roni Neff, PhD, our Johns Hopkins colleague. Introduction to the US Food System: Public Health, Environment, and Equity is indispensable for…

By David Wallinga, MD Today’s food system, from farm to fork, fails to provide Americans with the healthy foods, produced in ways that are healthy to the environment, and delivered at a price point that makes…

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Health professionals – nurses, dietitians, physicians, public health workers, social workers and others – see every day the downstream impacts of a broken food system. Healthy Food Action educates on the connection between farming and food…

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Healthy Food Action makes it simple for health professionals to ACT. It provides both vital information, and a mechanism for action. By speaking out, health professionals can lend their unique, collective voice to public policy debates…

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Engaging health professionals in today’s food and agriculture policy debates is essential. For years, these debates have occurred without engaging health professionals to fully assess and articulate the huge impacts of these policies on human health….

By Jeff Ritterman, M.D., Truthout | News Analysis A brilliant and celebrated inventor, John Franz, gave us an herbicide, Roundup, which has changed the face of agriculture. This herbicide has become the foundation for an entirely novel approach to farming…

By David Wallinga, MD Today’s food system, from farm to fork, fails to provide Americans with the healthy foods, produced in ways that are healthy to the environment, and delivered at a price point that makes…

With the global meat-eating explosion, meat production can’t be far behind. The U.S. currently produces more than 9 billion food animals — and their manure — for meat each year. Federal officials are thinking about where…